Topic: Russia

... or Eradicating the Rats from Our Congress! When I was a little boy, we lived in rural Missouri, about 30 miles outside of St. Louis. We lived there until I was nine years old. We lived in a small town, but ...

My Cold War Hang-Up

I found an old rotary telephone in a junk shop. "Only the president of the United States and the leader of Russia can have a high-gloss red phone," she told us. My mother said Miss L had a flair for the dramatic ...

Fourteen Points

Fourteen Points, (Jan. 8, 1918), declaration by U.S. President Woodrow Wilson during World War I outlining his proposals for a postwar peace settlement.. On Jan. 8, 1918, President Wilson, in his address to the joint session of the United States Congress, formulated ...